Supporting device for shoe buckles



March 9 1926. 1,576,2 73

L. GOLDBETTER ET AL SUPPORTING DEVICE FOR SHOE BUFJKLES Filed Nov. 20, 1925 gum/"tow LEW GOLDBETTER Mo SAMUEL M- .Dmuwms v Patented Mar. 9, 19 26 UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

LEW GOLDBETTER AND SAMUEL DRUMMER, OF NEW YORK, Y., ASSIGNORS TO PRIMROSE NOVELTY CORPORATION, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SUPPORTING DEVICE FOR SHOE BUCKLES.

Application filed November 20, 1925. Serial No. 70,420.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that Lnw Gonnen'r'rnn and SAMUEL M. DRUMMER, citizens of the United States, residing at 240 East 4th Street, New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supporting Devices for Shoe Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to detachable fastening means for shoe buckles and the like.

Fancy buckles have been provided with various means for attaching them to the front portion of a ladys pumpor other style of low shoe, but it has been found desirable to provide a fastening means for buckles of this character which may be readily removable from one pair of shoes and quickly attached to another pair. The object of this invention is to provide a fastening means of this character which will detachably support a buckle or ornament for a slipper or pump, which means is removably attached to an edge of the foot covering and provided with a supporting toe which holds'the buckle in upright position. The invention is illustratively exemplified in the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a low shoe with a buckle supported in accordance with my invention; Figure 2 is a perspective view of the fastening means; Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view taken through a buckle and fastening means, the view being taken on line 33 of Figure 4 which is an inside view of a pump with fastening means and buckle in position.

Referring to the drawings, 10 designates a buckle having a U-shaped strap 11 attached to its inside face as illustrated in Figure 3. The fastening means comprises a curved body plate 12 made of a single piece of sheet metal and provided with an upright offset rib or strap 13 and a transversely disposed tongue 14: formed by parallel slits which cut through the mid portion of the rib or strap 13, the lowermost slit being angular so as to bring one end'into the end ofthe upper slit. The tongue 14 is provided with an 05- set strap 15 projecting in the opposite direction from the strap 13 but its upright axis coincides with the axis of the latter strap. This construction forms a channel to receive the strap 11 of a buckle 10. Below the curved body portion 12 r of the fastening means the latter tapers inwardly towards the center and continues in a narrow portion 16. The portion .16 is bent back upon itself, as illustrated in Figure 3, then downwardly substantially on the plane of the body portion, and finally terminating in a supporting toe 17. This toe 17, it will be clearly seen,

is disposed centrally of the fastening means i and at each side of the narrow portion 16 the blank includes a T-shaped projection 18,

the cross arms of which are folded together in a downward direction to form jaws 19 which are arranged to embrace the edge of the pump or slipper 20. Each pair of jaws 19 is inclined slightly upwardly and disposed substantially alongside of the toe' 17 21 of the tongue 14: and by a transverse motion of the buckle the strap 11 is worked into the channel formed by the straps 13 and 15, the spring action of the said tongue 14 tending to hold the buckle rigid in the fastening means.

It will be clearv that the buckle to be smartly supported must be substantially above the edge of the slipper, as illustrated in Figure 3, and this position distributes the wei 'ht of the buckle so that it has a tendency to fhll over forward by the motion ofrthe foot. The toe 17 being disposed against the outer face of the shoe overcomes the weight of the buckle and enables the fastening means to support the buckle in substantially upright position.

What we claim is:

A buckle supporting arrangement having spaced jaws to embrace the edge of the footwear and an intermediate toe to rest against the outer face of the footwear to prevent the arrangement from falling forward.

In testimony whereof they have afiixed their signatures.

LEW GOLDBETTER. SAMUEL M. DRUMMER. 

